President Akufo-Addo has attributed the current struggling state of the Komenda Sugar Factory to the indecisions former president John Mahama in the building of the state asset.
Nana Addo said his predecessor used what he described as top to bottom approach which has left the factory in s collapsed sate, saying without first establishing a sugarcane plantation, betrays every principle of construction.
According to President Akufo-Addo, “You would think that every industrial activity would begin with, first of all, what you want to do, what you want to produce. Once you identify that, then clearly, your next step has to be what are the inputs, what are the things that you need to be able to feed into your factory, to get to your outputs and you are therefore to be satisfied when you start producing your production, those inputs are there?.”
But “He will rather build the roof, once the roof has been built then he will come down and then build the foundation. You know that a house built on that principle will collapse, just as Komenda collapsed.”
In an interview on Eagle FM, the president said “It is like building a house, and say you are going to start from the roof, before you have a foundation. How does the house get built? You going to start from the roof, when you haven’t built the foundation?” President Akufo-Addo asked.
On the future of the Komenda Sugar Factory, President Akufo-Addo told people of the Central Region that a preliminary assessment of the factory revealed that the factory had been over valued to the tune of some US$12 million.
On that he noted that “The Report of a Forensic Audit has been submitted to EOCO, which has since then written to Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice to conduct further investigations for possible prosecution”.
